A New Zealand private school is changing its dress code to explicitly allow hijabs in the wake of the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch that left 50 people dead.
"This is about more than hijabs, it’s about recognizing all of society’s injustices and the role we can play in correcting them," former students said in a statement.
"Diocesan School advises that it is clarifying its intent by revising its school uniform policy so that any student who wishes to wear the hijab can do so," the principal, Heather McRae, said in theThe policy change came after the school initially announced that students could wear hijabs for a"scarves in solidarity" event Friday in remembrance of the March 15 shooting by a suspected white supremacist.
The principal at first wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post that the school dress code was created to"help create a sense of oneness and family" and that while the hijab isn't"banned," it is also"not part of the long-standing Uniform Code." "We were privileged to go to a school like Diocesan — but we recognize that with privilege comes an even greater responsibility to the wider community," Wong and a group of Diocesan School for Girls alumni said in a statement to NBC News.that states a policy against hijabs does not"represent our views and what we think the school should be doing." The petition had more than 850 signatures as of Friday, and Wong says the majority are former students of the school.
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